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Seroconverted: Early 80sTested & confirmed what I already knew: early 90s

Current regimen: Atripla. Last regimen: Epzicom, Sustiva (since its inception with NO adverse side effects: no vivid dreams and NONE of the problems people who can't tolerate this drug may experience: color me lucky )Past regimensFun stuff (in the past): HAV/HBV, crypto, shingles, AIDS, PCP

I hope it is moments like this that people remember and not her low points

zaklee.

In my mind she will always be the gorgeous and classy lady in this image.

And here's an image from the film that she completed recently, a remake of Sparkle.

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Someone said to me earlier today - "isn't that the woman who sang My Heart Will Go On?" Nooooooooo..... puhLEEZE!

I loathe Celine Dion with unparalleled intensity. Her voice brings bile up my throat. I usually don't dislike people easily (especially without knowing anything about them), but I have no feelings other than visceral hate for Celine. I enjoy it too. And I refuse to change. It's very therapeutic for me actually. And a bit retarded. LOL.

Chile, I'm surprised no one had mentioned her up to this point. Pull down the shade!

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Or about how Ms. Houston used to fly to Chicago to have playtime with Kelly McGillis -- and you know the rumor was that sometimes Jody Foster would show up.

Jody Foster is gay? OEMGEE!

Kelly McGillis always gave me the impression of being of the carpet muncher persuasion, even though she often denied it and was married like twice or three times.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

I'm having SUCH a Whitney day -- five hours of the "Going Home" faux funeral, and now endless Whitney videos on FUSE channel, then at 7 PM a BET special, and at 8 PM "The Bodyguard" -- and last night as I was drifting off to sleep I watched "The Preacher's Wife"

... and I'm not even a Whitney fanatic. In fact, her only album I own was the debut one and I bought it used at a thrift shop in college.

I'm having SUCH a Whitney day -- five hours of the "Going Home" faux funeral, and now endless Whitney videos on FUSE channel, then at 7 PM a BET special, and at 8 PM "The Bodyguard" -- and last night as I was drifting off to sleep I watched "The Preacher's Wife"

... and I'm not even a Whitney fanatic. In fact, her only album I own was the debut one and I bought it used at a thrift shop in college.

I missed the entire service. Been at the movies all day doing the Oscars marathon (4 movies today and 5 next week). Right now I'm watching The Tree of Life. I soooooo love this movie. Oh, I did listen to Whitney's first album as I drove to the theatre.

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I missed the entire service. Been at the movies all day doing the Oscars marathon (4 movies today and 5 next week). Right now I'm watching The Tree of Life. I soooooo love this movie. Oh, I did listen to Whitney's first album as I drove to the theatre.

1) you never go to an actual cinema, you stream everything. Stop the lies. You're becoming like Wumpy. I hope you didn't eat that nasty popcorn and gorge on fake nachos.

2) Tree of Life was rather quasi-meh IMO.

3) I'm listening to the Twilo/Vasquez mix of "I Learned from the Best"

4) I have a call out to obtain a copy of Vasquez's rendition of "Fine" which is oh-so-very. I think I have a copy on a CD-R but am too lazy to dig in the closet.

1) you never go to an actual cinema, you stream everything. Stop the lies. You're becoming like Wumpy. I hope you didn't eat that nasty popcorn and gorge on fake nachos.

2) Tree of Life was rather quasi-meh IMO.

3) I'm listening to the Twilo/Vasquez mix of "I Learned from the Best"

4) I have a call out to obtain a copy of Vasquez's rendition of "Fine" which is oh-so-very. I think I have a copy on a CD-R but am too lazy to dig in the closet.

1) You're right about me rarely ever going to the movies, but I had a gift card for AMC and I figured it'd be a good way to kill the weekend. I thought War Horse was boring, Moneyball was just ok, and Tree of Life (which I had seen last Summer) was still as good as I thought the first time around.

2) Hell to the naw on movie popcorn, I hate that shit. I brought some tangerines and blue chips to eat. I am however having a Black Forest milkshake at the ultra pedestrian Johnny Rockets during the break. The Descendants starts at 7:30.

3) It was funny hearing some of these fools' reactions at the end of TOL. Someone actually said "what the fuck". I was like, chile please go watch that dreck with Channing Tatum instead.

4) I am going to need those Whitney remixes of "Fine".

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

All because of seating arrangements... After he shows up with an entourage of nine. Please. Every Little Step he makes is just tacky.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

OK, she was a great singer and it is awful that she died so young, but I am so completely over this 24x7 coverage of her death. You can't turn the TV on and not see Whitney within a couple of minutes -- it's way over the top. I hope the funeral ends it.

I suppose one good thing is with all the Whitney coverage, there has been less GOP primary coverage.

When was he not crappy? With the exception of the "Don't Be Cruel" single (and to some extent "On Our Own") he pretty much sucked.

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"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

I loathe Celine Dion with unparalleled intensity. Her voice brings bile up my throat. I usually don't dislike people easily (especially without knowing anything about them), but I have no feelings other than visceral hate for Celine. I enjoy it too. And I refuse to change. It's very therapeutic for me actually. And a bit retarded. LOL.

What?! Celine gets a bad rap, because she can sing everyone's songs better than they do. This really brings bile to your throat?

I missed the funeral today. We did watch some of the pre-coverage though. It did make me wonder what they would have covered today, if not for this. When they do non-stop coverage of something like this (not saying it wasn't news worthy), it always makes me think what they would have covered must not be all that important.